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Remove Wikipedia citation numbers (Regex)
Gary-SwiftPostMay 6, 2024, 08:22
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Normal topicRemove Wikipedia citation numbers (Regex)

I was going to ask this as a question but I figured out how to do it so I'm adding my solution here in case it is a help to anyone else.

I was trying to create an action that would remove Wikipedia citation numbers from the comment field.

These are the numbers in square brackets such as [1].

I first did a test to make sure my regex was working over here:

https://regex101.com/

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I then added it to the Regular Expression function and assigned it to an action.

This is the regex:

\[[0-9]+\]

The result is shown in the screenshot below:

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2MR2PostMay 6, 2024, 10:38
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Normal topicRemove Wikipedia citation numbers (Regex)

Perfect. Just a hint. The [0-9] sequence can be represented as \d (backslash lower case d)

Personally I can never remember regex sequences. They're available on the context menu or in the Regex tester.

You can go directly into the Regex Tester from the Replace statement by hitting the eyeball button. After creating it in the tester you can save it back to the Replace statement. No need to go out to an external site.
Gary-SwiftPostMay 6, 2024, 16:40
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Normal topicRemove Wikipedia citation numbers (Regex)

Great, thanks for the tip!

I also used the built-in tester and it worked great.
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